Thanks Rick, that's just what I ended up doing and MSKB article 255084 ( http://tinyurl.com/3yf7e ) really shored up all of the other details that I'd otherwise have no way of knowing.

Thanks,
Clay



>You need to create a connection profile for the oracle client so that you can connect with username and password that is not ASPNET. I would stay away from giving the ASPNET account rights to your Oracle database on another machine - that's a major nightmare scenario.
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>Do a search here on Oracle and look for posts from Mark McCasland and Kelly Conway on how to set up a configured Oracle connection - it's a PITA and needs to be done on every client machine, but that helped me get a connection to Oracle going.
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>Regards,
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>Perhaps I should be posting this in the "ASP.NET in general" category...
>>
>>I have a Windows Form that connects to an Oracle database and everything works great. I also have an ASP.NET page that calls the same business object that my Windows Form does but I get the following error when I click on the button on my aspx page that fires the call to my business object:
>>
>>"Oracle client and networking components were not found. These components..."
>>
>>I since found some MS Knowledge Base articles (Q306158 in particluar) that mention different approaches of impersonation. I've tried both adding...
>>

>>  <system.web>
>>	<identity impersonate="true" />
>>  </system.web>
>>

>>and
>>

>>  <system.web>
>>	<identity impersonate="false" userName="ASPNET" password="password"/>
>>  </system.web>
>>

>>...to my web.config file (its element contains exactly what I have from my app.config file's element) and I continue to get the same Oracle related error message.
>>
>>I made changes to my ASPNET user account based on this thread as well thinking that might be the problem:
>>http://p2p.wrox.com/archive/aspx_beginners/2002-09/4.asp
>>
>>Same resulting error message.
>>
>>I'm sure that the problem lies somewhere with my ASPNET user account since everything works just fine from within my Windows Forms.
>>
>>Thanks for any help!
>>Clay

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